Yahoo Reviews

Pros

Great onsite perks - gym, cafeteria. Great offices. Good co-workers. Employees are treated with respect. Fun environment. Company was open to doing things differently.

Cons

Constant reorganization. Lack of clarity in company's objectives. Selfish senior management (VP and up). Highly political. Terrible parking. Decisions didn't "stick".

Advice to Senior Management

Pick a strategy, align around it, and just do it.

Pros

Free snacks, benefits are ok, teammates are fun to be around

Cons

Long hours, stressful environment, poor company vision

Advice to Senior Management

I wish that they would give more incentives to employees to stay on

Pros

I love the people I work with at Yahoo!, mostly are friendly compared to other companies I worked at (such as eBay). There is a good work-life balance. We have a lot of fun family related events.

Cons

Management does not seem to care about keeping good talent in house. I was a full time employee that was laid off, then asked to come back as a consultant, now there is an opening in another department for a full time job, my manager has recommended me, but the hiring manager won't even give me a phone interview, she is going straight to external candidates.

Advice to Senior Management

Even if an internal candidate does not have all of the skills you are looking for, if they are still excited to stay at Yahoo!, you have to help them stay, they are showing their loyalty and instead you are kicking them out!!

Pros

OK compensation and good benefits . also yahoo as a brand is known all over but otherwise there is no good reason to join and keep working for this company

Cons

nepotism and low employee morale. also stock options and RSU are uselss. frequent layoffs which target 'non-ass-kissing' employees. overall a pretty bad place to work

Advice to Senior Management

offer promotions within. See that employees get some benifit out of stock options. make RSU's vest every year rather tna after four years

Pros

Very open and flexible company culture. You will come across a bunch of talented individual contributors, which are smart and mostly easy to work with.

Cons

Higher management doesn't really know where they should be going, unclear strategy to take the company to the next level. Frequent but useless re org oftens leads to chaos and deteriorated morale.

Advice to Senior Management

Make a good judgement on what you want and in which direction you want to steer the company. YOu have great engineers, most of them already left though. To retain talent, the overall goal of the company has to be clear and promising.

Pros

Fun employees. Great benefits 401k, medical dental. Office is beautiful and my manager is just wonderful. Very generous with time off.

Cons

Room for growth is minimal due to how big the companys is. They need to pay more attention to all.

Pros

High level of talents but wasted

Cons

REALLY bad management, need smarter leaderships

Pros

Fairly stable. Pay, benefits, and workload is reasonable. Has good community of frontend engineers where you can grown in that area.

Cons

Management clueless. Teams not united. Each functional team only cares about their own interest: architects want to push their latest-and-greatest platforms, VPs only care about test code coverage to satisfy minimum requirements, QA only care about process, PMs only care about launching new features (whether they make sense or not).

Advice to Senior Management

They should recognize that they do not know how to turnaround the company and just leave. If it's the best interest to sell the company, then do what is right.

Pros

1. Experience.
2. Brand.
3. Healthy environment.
4. Global reach.

Cons

1. Low Salaries
2. Sometime unclear vision.
3. Being 3rd internet companies, make it sometime follower.
4. Middle management.
5. Legacy people.

Pros

There are smart people that work there.
The free shwag is somtimes nifty and fun.
Octoberfest.
Some interesting products and tools to work with.

Cons

4 layoffs in 4 years (and more to come).
$30ish stock options that were never worth it.
Despite layoffs there are incompetent teams (team of 10 working for 2 years did what 1 competent person could do in 6 months (no exaggeration there)).
Apparently you ant fire someone outside of a layoff unless you have a years with of screw ups as evidence.
Poor decisions by upper management and execs.
More leaks than a boat made of Swiss cheese.
Constantly reinventing the wheel except that the wheel they always make is square and they never learn.
Several teams working to reinvent the same wheel at the same time and don't communicate.

Advice to Senior Management

Fire those that do not work well.
Raise salaries.
Apologize to current workers for hiring Bartz that was like poison for the Y! culture.